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...Senate, top Administration officials have come under close questioning about verification. The results have been confusing. First, CIA Director Stansfield Turner, testifying at a closed hearing, told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that the U.S. would not be able to fully replace the monitoring capabilities lost in Iran until 1984. After this gloomy assessment was leaked last week, Defense Secretary Harold Brown tried to sound more encouraging. He said that even though "regaining all of [the Iranian] monitoring capability . . . will take until 1983 or 1984," the U.S. will have "enough of it to verify adequately Soviet compliance with...
...Faculty largely accepted the recommendations, but imposed a change in the method proposed to select the Council's members. The report had suggested the traditional method of allowing the dean of the Faculty choose the members, with competing slates if Faculty members desired. Thomson and Levin say they tried to insejt a clause in the report that would mandate the election of Faculy Council members. They were overruled by the committee, only to be upheld by the Faculty after furious canvassing by both the liberal and conservative caucuses...
...tough Princeton eight is stroked by Ann Marden, who rowed on the U.S. national team last summer, and features several oarswomen with experience in prep school and on the junior national team. Tiger coach Kris Korzeniowski, who will select the women's national eight this summer, was pleased with his team's performance despite the loss...
Another suggestion was to assign Houses before freshman year, as Yale does, to insure maximum randomization and to avoid having students select Houses on the basis of stereotypes...
Between meetings with Congressmen, administration officials, and the various business groups to which he belongs, deButts estimates that he spends 30 per cent of his time on federal issues. At least two business groups--the Business Roundtable and the Business Council (both collections of select members of the Fortune 1000, a list of the largest companies in the nation)--require deButts and his fellow CEOs to remain personally involved in the political process...